Martha Randolph Carr: Bloggers are a bastion of free speech

9:38 PM,
Sep. 4, 2013

Martha Randolph Carr

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Martha Randolph Carr

Ever since the first blog was posted in 1998, chronicling the aftermath of a hurricane, a lot of us have wondered if the surge of people writing about their children, their hobbies and the ups and downs of life was a good idea or a sign of the end of our communities.

The reporting of the common man's life suddenly was in the hands of all of these ordinary guys and it seemed like the definition of anarchy. A lot of the bloggers didn't understand the term, original source, which means an institution that sets a high bar for the truth before they state something as fact. There are scientific studies or polls ...